סָלַד
to leap
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5539 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
סלד (çâlad) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to leap.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. Job dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is Job 6:10. Related forms include סלד. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5539 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Job 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Yea i would harden 1×
- American Standard Version: Yea 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Joy 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Indeed let me exult 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5539 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5539 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5539 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5539 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- (Piel) to leap, jump, spring, leap for joy
Word origin
[ סָלַד ] vb. very dubious, perh. spring;— Pi. Jb 6:10
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
סָלַד
- to bound, rebound, shrink. Makhsh. V, 9 מפני שהיא סוֹלֶדֶת לאחוריה because the jet of a viscous mass, when poured out and stopped, bounds backward (and the connection with the mass in the unclean vessel is not suddenly severed, v. נִיצּוֹק). Gitt. 57ᵃ לובן ביצה סוֹלֵד מן האור a stain on bed-clothes made by the white of an egg contracts (and hardens) when heated, opp. דיהה gets faint. Sabb. 40ᵇ יד סולדת בו when the hand put into it is spontaneously withdrawn (feeling the scald); Ḥull. 105ᵇ top. Pesik. B’shall., p. 103ᵃ ונפשו סולדת לאחוריה his soul starts backward (he shrinks back in disgust of the smell); Gen. R. s. 51 ונפשו ס׳ עליו; Midr. Till. to Ps. XI ed. Bub. (oth. ed. מסוללת); Yalk. Gen. 85; (Yalk. Ps. 655 קצה).—Sifra Emor ch. II, Par. 3; Bekh. 43ᵇ חוטמו סולד one whose nose is turned up (snub-nosed).
- to spring, sport (euphem. for unnatural sexual gratification). Y. Gitt. VIII, 49ᶜ bot., v. סָלַל I.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5539, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Proper names from this root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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